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by deepflame
2015-02-03T02:32:07-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Render text to SVG file
Replies: 4
Views: 4339

Re: Render text to SVG file

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I tried Inkscape already but there are unfortunately some bugs when running it headless and exporting to plain SVG. Doing some more research we found the Harfbuzz hb-view tool to do exactly what we want but with some compromise. For example it does not have alignment ...
by deepflame
2015-02-02T09:27:37-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Render text to SVG file
Replies: 4
Views: 4339

Re: Render text to SVG file

SVG files are plain text. If you want to insert text in an SVG file, use a text tool. You are right, but the idea was to "render" text to an SVG file having the text as outlines (SVG path elements). I would not like to use the standard SVG text element and reference the font inside as this is a ...
by deepflame
2015-02-02T06:08:03-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Render text to SVG file
Replies: 4
Views: 4339

Render text to SVG file

Hi! I am trying to render text to an SVG file. Is this generally supported? Rendering to raster image formats like PNG works great. The SVG I get looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC ...